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Windows 7 will not automount (assign a letter) a flash drive, behaves really strange
I have a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4gb that I use often. Today, after using it to install ubuntu on another pc and plugging it to my main computer, windows 7 refuses to mount it (IE the drive does not ...
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TrueCrypt messes up its drive letters
For some reason, about 50% of the time when I mount a volume with TrueCrypt, it mounts to a different drive letter, forcing me to un-mount it and re-mount it to the drive letter I need.
(I mount the ...
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Windows drive letters for non-Latin languages
Windows uses characters A-Z for drive letters on English installations.
For languages with non-Latin character sets (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic etc), are letters A-Z still assigned to drives?
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Windows 7 loses drive letter mapping on reboot
I have two sata hard drives configured as RAID1 that I am using as a data drive in my Win7 system. The OS is installed on a non-raid SSD drive.
After installing the OS and starting Win7 for the ...
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How to make symbolic link independant of drive letter
I have partitions set up on my windows 7 machine such that one drive holds all my personal documents, while the C drive is meant to hold everything else. To help the two work together, I made some ...
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How do I changes a USB drive letter without the Disk Management snap-in
I've got a user who wants to be able change the dive letter a USB drive is being assigned. Naturally, I'd use the Disk Management snap-in. However, my user doesn't have sufficient privileges to run it ...
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Booting Google Chrome causes error message “There is no disk in the drive […]”
Without any reason I suddenly receive an error message when booting Google Chrome:
"There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \
Device \ Harddisk3 \ DR7"
(I don't know ...
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C:/ and E:/ drives swapped letters after reinstalling
I have just reinstalled Windows XP on my machine and something weird happened.
I have a DATA partition which used to be I:/ but now after reinstalling it's name is C:/ and the system partition's ...
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Reassigning drive letter for cloned system partition
Since my primary Windows 7 partition (C:) ran out of space, I made a disk image with Seagate Disk Wizard (which seems to be a version of Acronis True Image) and restored the image to a bigger ...
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How do I remove Windows drive letter information
Windows remembers drive letters for all disks. Where is this information stored and is there a way to delete/reset it?
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how change drive letter of system boot drive from another operating system (dual boot)
i have dual boot operating systems on my computer,
windows 7 -> drive c
windows XP -> drive g
i followed the link below and accidently i changed the windows XP drive letter from windows XP.
How to ...
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Windows Server 2003 hangs when I plug in any external drive. How can I prevent this?
I have to back up a 50 gig file to an external drive weekly. If I plug it into USB, the server hangs (nonresponsive explorer etc). Tried 2 different drives with same result.
Googling suggests this is ...
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Windows system drive letter changed after repair install
yesterday I did a repair install, because Windows froze on welcome screen after resizing its partition on a dual boot system. corresponding question
Everything worked fine so far, but now I am facing ...
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Rename drive letter of the system partition on Microsoft Small Business Server 2003
I left Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 to install itself on a Dell server with two SCSI hard drives. During Windows setup, both the drives were unformatted, so I chose the first to format with ...
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Add/Change Drive Letter Causes BSOD
Recently Microsoft Support had me "upgrade" or rather replace the installation of Windows because I had an SFC error that could not be resolved any other way, apparently.
SFC now runs without ...
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Using A: or B: drive letters for CD / DVD on Windows 7 [closed]
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Can I install Windows 7 in A:\ or B:\ partition names?
I have to confess to being a little "partition happy" at times, but with drives now stretching into the 3TB range ...
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Can I install Windows 7 in A:\ or B:\ partition names?
Some years ago (actually decades now), when Windows 95 (or even 3.11) came, "A:\" and "B:\" partition names were reserved to the old magnetic removable discs (also known as Floppy Disks).
However, ...
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How to detect drive letters which are assigned twice?
There is a small bug in Windows that I would like to create a small application as a solution for. So, in my company we have several network drives ( F:\, G:\, H:\, I:\ etc.) and sometimes if I ...
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How to fix “This disk doesn't contain a Windows-XP compatible partition”?
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How can I assign a drive letter with the Windows XP recovery console?
I've read older post on this question but didn't help me to fix it so I'm asking it here again. I tried to ...
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Why is my new internal hard disk is not showing up after reinstalling Windows 7?
I have a desktop with an Intel motherboard running Windows 7. A few days ago I bought a 2nd internal hard disk (SATA Seagate 500GB). I installed it and it was running normally. I copied some of my ...
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How do I map a local path to a drive letter in Windows 7?
I am coding on something and want to map \cygwin\home\bob\code\ to U: drive letter. When I try to map it using net use C:\cygwin\home\bob\code\ U: /P:yes , but it gave the following error:
System ...
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Change default drive letter assignment
I have a server running SBS 2011, and we have a rotating disk backup solution using Comodo Backup. The backup is configured to back up to the H:, however, two of our five disks ALWAYS have a drive ...
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Hard drive letter incorrectly reassigned
During my failed attempt to use Norton Ghost to clone my boot drive, the original disk letter assignments were changed and now Windows 7 can not find my files. The original disk (which I am still ...
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How can I change the letter assigned to a drive by Windows, without using a Windows program?
I had Windows 7 installed on an old HDD, which contained my C:\ drive.
Perhaps foolishly (?), when I got a new SSD I first formatted it using the Windows Disk Management tool and assigned it the ...
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Changing CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive Letter from D: to E:
I read this, but it doesn't address one question I've had about this (I'd comment on it, but my rep isn't high enough):
When changing the ODD Drive Letter from D: to E:, I get this message in Windows ...
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Why can't I assign drive letters in Windows 7?
My Google-fu has failed me.
I've found info around the net for assigning and rearranging drive letters, but this problem is different.
I have a laptop that shows the C: drive just fine. However, the ...
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Can I back up my Windows 7 Installation, change the OS drive letter, then restore it?
I just installed Windows 7 to a new SSD HD and got everything setup how I want it but then realized that the hard drive that the OS was on is the G drive. I'd like to change it to the C drive but ...
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Windows XP-64 loses audio sounds, drive letters… why?
Until sometime in early December, I had a wonderfully functioning XP-64 system. It was configured to auto download/install MS patches. I occassionally update the software on it, e.g. Open Office, ...
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How to force Windows to call the partition it installs on C:?
I'm going to install Windows XP from a CD and want to make sure it calls the partition it lands on C:. The target partition is the first one on a SATA disk, which is not the first one in my computer. ...
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if i have two external hard drives connected to my computer by USB (2.0 i think) will they load with consistent letters?
(I'm using windows-7 and the hard drives are western digital with whatever formatting they came with from the factory)
i'm thinking of setting up two different back-ups one through windows and one ...
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Windows 7 keeps losing drive letters
Windows 7 loses its drive letters and I have to keep manually assigning a drive letter everytime I plug in a hard drive, whether it's internal or external.
The only way to get around it is to ...
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Internal Drive Changes Letter on Boot
Hey guys, I'm running Windows 7 x64 and every time I boot my machine it changes the letter of one of my drives. I have four drives and this is the only one that ever does this. Any ideas?
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How does Windows (7) identify an (external) hard disk uniquely?
Windows allows you to assign a certain letter to an external disk drive (using diskmgmt.msc). Whenever the device is plugged in again, it assigns this same letter again.
How does Windows identify ...
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windows xp sp3 don't assign more a letter to removaable drives
Since some moment, my windows xp sp3 stops assigning a letter on removable drive insertion. How should I fix this? The only way have I is manual assigning a letter via comp. management from control ...
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Vista cannot map network drive
As per subject, I'm not able to map a remote network drive to my Vista. I tested on an XP machine in the same network as mine and it's able to map the said drive, I also tried another Vista in the ...
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How to remove a drive mapping on win xp
I have mapped a drive but now I want it off. How do I remove this mapped drive
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My external hard drive letter is increasing each time i plugin it to my laptop, how to solve this problem?
I have a strange problem, everytime i plugin my external hard drive, its letter increase, "g,h,i,j,k,l,m, then n, and now o"
I went to computer manager and did what is described in this question: ...
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Windows has automatically mapped my network drives to my local disk - how do I stop it doing so?
Windows XP decided when I logged on that because the network was unavailable at the time that two of my network drives should be mapped to my local drive so that data would be saved.
All well and ...
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Mapped network drive missing from My Computer and Explorer
On a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine one network drive refuses to show up in My Computer or Explorer. The missing drive letter is G:, if that matters. Other mappings work fine. Other profiles one the same ...
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Windows XP consuming drive letters
This one's a bit of a stumper. I'm running XP SP3, current with all fixes, etc. My problem is that I can assign a drive letter to a container file (explained below), it works just fine. But once I ...
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Windows XP loses drive letter for existing partition on disk
apologies if this has already been asked - I couldn't spot anything exactly the same.
I'm looking for help on the fact that Windows XP has suddenly decided to stop assigning a drive letter to the ...
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Cannot assign a letter to a FAT32 partition
I have an external hard disk where I have created many partitions to use also in Linux.
First two partitions are FAT32. The third is a Truecrypt partition. I cannot assign a letter to the second ...
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Creating a shortcut to a program on thumb drive without drive letter
Is there a way to create a shortcut to an EXE on a USB thumb drive that will work no matter what drive letter is assigned to the thumb drive?
I have a program in a folder on a thumb drive. I want to ...
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How do I make an external hard drive keep the same drive letter permanently?
I have a desktop PC (2002 vintage) running Windows XP that I turn on about 2 or 3 times per week. I have a mains powered 250Gb Western Digital hard disk connected to it via USB. I always turn the hard ...
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How to use Client for NFS on Windows Vista?
I've installed "Client for NFS" on my 32-bit Windows Vista Ultimate. However, I can't find it in the start menu, and can't find any documentation on how to use it.
How do I connect to a NFS share ...
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Windows: Changing an External Hard Drive's Drive Letter
I'm trying to resolve a file path error problem with TortoiseSVN in this question on Stack Overflow. One of the answers suggested trying to change the drive letter of my external hard drive. How can I ...
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Cloning a USB flash drive to another larger one, is it safe to do so?
I used Acronis True Image Home 2010 to clone a Dane-Elec zLight 8Gb pen drive/USB flash drive to a PNY Attaché 16Gb USB flash drive. Now WinXP shows the drive in device manager as USB DISK 2.0 USB ...
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Force a USB device to use a certain drive letter
Wnen I connected a friend's USB to my computer, it took a letter that used to be for my USB device. Now my USB doesn't use the same letter as before, even after a reboot.
Is it possible to force it ...
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Is there any problems caused by having Windows XP installed to a drive letter other than C:?
I fixed a friends computer yesterday. It was BSODing on startup every boot. It turned out something was up with his Windows partition, the Windows install/rescue CD could not read it, and neither ...
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Windows XP mounting USB drive to same letter as previously mapped network drive
Why does Windows always mount a USB drive as the next drive letter after the last physical drive, even when that letter is already taken by a mapped drive, and is there any way to improve this ...
